File-case-handling device.



D. J. BONCHER & W. E. DRAEB. FILE CASE HANDLING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 19. 1917.

1,258,309. Patented Mar. 5,1918.

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UNTTED STATES PATENT QFFTGEQ DANIEL J. .IBONGHER AND WILL E. DRAEB, 70F KEWAUNE E, W'IS'CGNSIN.

FILE-CASE- HANDL'ING DEVICE.

Specification of Lettersiatent.

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Appiic'atio'n filed May 19, 19W. Ser-ia1 lid-1239344.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, Danna J. Boncnna and WILL E. Danna, citizens of the United States, residing at Kewaunee, in the county of Kewaunee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in File-Case Handling Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to implements for removing or depositing articlesupon shelves which are located higher than can be conveniently reached by a person standing upon the floor, and has for one of its objects to simplify and improve the construction and increase the efiiciency and utility of a device of this character.

Another object of the invention is to provide an implement of this character which may be readily applied without material structural change to engagearticles of various sizes and forms.

Vith these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter shown and described and then specifically pointed out in the claim; and in the drawings illustrative of the preferred embodiment of the invention- Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved implement applied.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the handle or stock portion of the implement.

Fig. 3 is a detached perspective view of the holding portion of the device.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and inclicated in all the views of the drawings by the same reference characters.

The improved implement may be adapted without material structural change to handling various forms and sizes of objects, such as cartons or boxes containing goods of various kinds, but is more particularly adapted for use in handling file cases in which papers are deposited, and to readily remove such articles from elevated shelves or other supports, and comprises a stock or handle of any suitable size and of any suitable length, the length of the stock de pending upon 1; 1e height of the shelf or other support upon which the article to be handled is located. The stock is preferably of wood with a metal ferrule llat one end and with a rod 12 extending from the ferruled end of the stock, the rod being bent laterally to form a hook-like terminal, as represented at 13. Spaced from the ferruled end of the stock is a bracket device comprising a body portion 14 extending obliquely to the longitudinal axis of the stock and extending toward the stock at its lower end as shown at 15, and secured to the stock at its ends, as represented at 16..

Connected totheobliquely directed portion 14 of the bracket is a holding member formed from a single strip of metal bent substantially into U shape whereby side portions 17 are produced extending in parallel relation and with a seat 18 bent into the connecting portion of the holding member. The seatis designed to receive the oblique portion 14 ofothe bracket to which it is rigidly secured by clamp screws 19 or like devices. The ends of the recess 18 bear against the side edges of the portion 14 of the bracket, so that the side portions 17 are held from displacement relative to the bracket. The obiect to be handled, for instance a file case of conventional construction, is pro- 7 vided with an eye 20 near its upper edge through which the hooked terminal 13 of the rod 12 is inserted, while the side por- V tions 17 of the holding device engage the opposite sides of the article to be handled. The back members of file cases are usually of wood, as indicated at 21, and the eye 20 is preferably in the form of an ordinary screw eye which is inserted into the wood back of the file case. Assuming that one or more of the file cases are deposited upon a shelf or other support which is located at a higher point than could be conveniently reached by a person on the floor, the hook portion 13 of the rod 12 is inserted through the screw eye 20 and the sides 17 of the holding member engaged over the opposite sides of the article. The stock 10 is then elevated to release the article from the shelf and draw it outwardly and lower it to the floor, the member 1213 holding the article in position while the side portions 17 of the holding member prevent lateral displacement. The

article may be restored to the shelf by're- Having thus described the invention, What the stock, and a supporting device connectis claimed as new is ed to the obliquely directed portion of said An implement of the class described combracket and including spaced sides adapted prising a stock having a reduced projection to engage the opposite faces of the article 5 at one and formed with a lateral offset and to be moved and maintain the same in an 15 adapted to be engaged with the article to be inclined position.

moved, a bracket device attached to the In testimony whereof We aiiix our signastructure and spaced from the reduced protures.

jection and including a body portion di- DANIEL J. BONCHER. [L.s.]

10 rected obliquely to the longitudinal axis of l/VILL E. DRAEB. [L s.]

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